I Had The First Integrated Army Band

Your Mother’s Heartbeat Is The First Sound You Ever Hear And Your Own Heartbeat Is The Last.

I Got A Poster From Columbia Records, And There's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - Everybody In That Poster Has Died, I'm The Only One Left. And Great Players Like Paul Desmond And Gerry Mulligan, It's Hard To Believe They're Gone Because We Were All So Close. But I Believe In The Future And The Tradition Will Go On.

What I Want To Happen Is To Be Really Creative, And To Play Something New In The Improvisations, Every Time.

I Knew I Wanted To Write On Religious Themes When I Was A Gi In World War Ii. I Saw And Experienced So Much Violence That I Thought I Could Express My Outrage Best With Music.

It's Like A Whole Orchestra, The Piano For Me. And Also It's To Me The Greatest Instrument. I Shouldn't Say That, But I Believe That This Is The Only Instrument I Can Really Feel Happy About Playing.